The Stetson Reporter

msmmmm teteon E "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" .■ ;i70th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1957 Hi-Hats Ready For NAIA National Tourney »'; Parade to Open Campus-Wide Military Week "Military Week," the biggest in Stetson's history, begins Monday afternoon, 4:30, with a parade on Hulley Field honoring the City of DeLand and the University students and faculty. The seventh annual Military Ball will be one of the highlights of the program and will conclude the week's festivities. Open House will be held at Brittain Hall, ROTC headquarters, Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. At the open house will be a display of the training facilities and weapons of the unit. A movie showing some of Stetson's cadets and instructors at Summer Camp will be the main attraction Thursday, 7:30 p.m. at Allen Hall. i> Seniors Honored J^' A Scabbard and Blade Ban- ? quet will honor graduating seniors , k * of the battalion Friday evening. J Following the banquet some of the fraternities will hold open c houses to be visited by Scabbard , and Blade members, ROTC instructors, and Gen. Lyal Metheny and Lt. Col. Royal R. Taylor, special guests for the Military (Continued On Page Five) -h J Is I 'I T '^ ►! jy i- y ^ 4 SOPHOMORE TESTING TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK By Ann Severance Stetson sophomores will be busy participating in the 1957 National College ^Sophomore Testing Program next week. Beginning on Tuesday afternoon from 1:00 to 4:30 and continuing on to Thursday morning from 8:00 to 11:30, sophomores will be seating themselves for these annual tests. Because these tests are designed to compare Stetson to other colleges throughout the United States, this program is required of all sophomores with the exception of those who participated in the 1956 series. Not only do these tests help the University evaluate its program, but they enable the student to compare himself with (other Stetson sophomores and sophomores across the country. These tests cover the following areas: English expression and reading comprehension; knowledge of history and social studies, literature, science, fine arts, and mathematics; knowledge of recent developments in the field of public affairs, science and medicine, and literature and fine arts. Through an interpretative leaflet, by which the score's are made available, it is possible' for the sophomore to identify 'his strong and weak areas.'' This information is valuable in selecting courses at the upperelass level. A trophy symbolic of the District 25/NAIA championship is admired by President Edmunds, and at his request it will remain on display in his office until a permanent location is chosen. From left in the picture are Coach Dick Morland, Dr. Edmunds, Mac Stones and, Dick Layer. Stones and Layer, team co-captains, said they would try and bring back the national trophy from Kansas City. Hays Contest Honors Merrill The Walter L. Hays Prizes for essays on free enterprise and the American way of life this year will recognize the contribution made in this area by the late ChaVIes E. Merrill, it was announced today by Dr. John A. Hague, director of the Merrill Program of American Studies. A first prize of $200 and a second prize of $100 will be given by Mr. Hays, president of the American Fire and Casualty Company, Orlando, for the best addresses, on the subject. This will be the seventh time Mr. Hays has sponsored this important contest - - one which was started after he won a Freedoms Foundation award for a commencement address in 1950 at Stetson on "What Made America Great.". Mr. Hays gave his $300 prize money for the first contest and kept the medallion and other mementoes of the award. The following year after the contest was started, it was awarded a Freedoms Foundation award. Mr. Merrill was cited last year by the agency for establishing the American Studies Program at Stetson. "This year is one in which the University is especially mindful of the contribution which the late Charles E. Merrill made to our understanding of free enterprise, and Mr. Hays has agreed that it would be appropriate for students to write their essays about the nature of Mr. Merrill's contribution," said Dr. Hague. ' The vplans call for the "prize- winning essay to he read- at- a special,. public meeting honoring 1 (Continued on page six) REPORTER NOTICE There will be a special meeting for all REPORTER staff members and students interested in joining the staff today at 1 p.m. Sports Editor George McLarry needs someone to assist him in covering varsity sports. Some assistant copy readers are also needed. Students unable to attend the meeting should contact the REPORTER office sometime during the week between 10 and 11 a.m. VOTE TO BE TAKEN IN SGA MEETING TODAY! The Stetson Basketball team has' recently won the right to attend the NAIA Tournament in Kansas City. Expenses of all but two members of the team will be met by the NAIA. This would mean that the assistant coach and one player would not be able to attend the tournament. With the fine record which they have made this season, the Student Body- should welcome a chance to support the entire team as they journey to Kansas City. The team has requested that the SGA underwrite the costs of sending the other two members of the Hatter squad. This proposal will be presented in today's SGA meeting subject to approval by a 2/3 majority vote of the, student body. All students are urged to attend this meeting for this vote. It will be considered that all those students not attending to vote' will he interpreted as giving approval to this proposal. Quiz Programs To Be Resumed The * Campus Quiz Bowl, the radio quiz program that caused such keen competition and interest last spring, will be back on the air this semester. The first broadcast will be Wednesday. Campus organizations will have another chance to compete for scholastic honors in a half hour of rapid-fire questions and answers. Each oi'ganization will send three contestants; they will be asked questions on philosophy, religion, sports, fine arts, politics, and other popular subjects. The contestants will have to be quick because the program will be run on a buzzer system with the first answer accepted. The buzzer will be arranged so that the first one sounded will cut off the others; thus, it will not be up to the moderator to decide who answered first. The questions will be provided by faculty members, and they will be tough. Something else new has been added. The programs will be held in Elizabeth Hall just as soon as arrangements can- be made to set up the equipment.- This year each organization can encourage its team right from the audience. The programs will be on radio over WJBS every Wednesday night from 10:00 till 10:30. Buddy Simpson will be moderating, and the entire show will be run by Stetson Students. The Phi Society is sponsoring the show this year instead of the S/G.A. As the emphasis is on scholastic and academic excellence, the Society will be a more appropriate sponsor. Team To Arrive In Kansas City On Sunday Team effort carried the Stetson Hatters to victory in the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball District 25 tournament, last week in Statesboro, Ga., Head Coach Dick Morland said today as he plans to participate in the national tournament next week in Kansas City. This is the second time the Hatters have gone to the nationals. In 1953 they were beaten in the second round of play by the eventual champions. At Statesboro, the top-seeded Hatters were held point-for-point in the first half of the opening- game by Piedmont College, but in the second period, with a full court press, the Hatters broke the game wide open and won handily, 72-57. Georgia Teachers scored more than 100 points to easily dispose of the Mercer Bears in the first round of play, but the following- night found the Hatters much 'tougher. With nine-bnd-a-half minutes of play elapsed, Stetson led, 30-9, due largely to the sterling defense of Dick Layer and Dave Howard. The two Stetson guards had completely bottled-up the Profs' high scoring guards, Don Wallen and Bo Warren. With Stetson leading 16 points at the half, the Profs came out fighting for the ball and as a result the Hatters established a (Continued on page six) PRICHARD OPENS SERIES OF MUSEUM LECTURES The first in the series of 1957 Museum Lectures was given on Thursday afternoon by Dr. E. C. Prichard. He spoke on the out- standing botanical discoveries during the centuries 1857- 1957. His topic delt with Mendel's ' contribution to heredity and its affect on both plant and animal breeding, and notable applications of the many discoveries in the field of botany. Among these , is tho major role played by botany in fprestry; the discovery of the process of chromatography, a tool which has, made possible the isolation of many vitamins and facilitated many advances in chemistry; and the development of the entire field of antibiotics. There will be four more lectures in this series. The first of these four will be March 14, by Dr. A. M. Winchester, speaking on human heredity. This will be followe'd by J. E. Wells, physicist, on March 21; Dr. Melvin J. Williams) sociologist, on April 14; and the series will be concluded April 11, by Curtis Lowry, engineer. These lectures take place in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 4:00. f-»